Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials defend their record, noting that all AIDS drugs have been placed on a special fast track. Retrovir went from initial clinical testing to final approval in less than 21 months, in contrast to the usual 8.8 years. Last month the agency proposed rules that would allow doctors to use experimental drugs in life-threatening situations. Says Young: "That is a breakthrough. It's a very propatient orientation...
Both teams have strong motivation to win tomorrow night's contest. Michigan St. wants to defend its 1986 NCAA title in front of its home fans in Detroit, and Minnesota wants to avenge its 6-4 loss to the Spartans last year in Providence...
...policy that makes it impossible for members of the community to respond to objectionable speakers with acts of non-violent civil disobedience, even when such acts are carefully designed and executed so as to pose no threat to the free speech of others. The University has an obligation to defend the rights to free speech not only of Mr. Kent-Brown but also of those who oppose his views. In this case they did neither. In order to develop a policy that would accomplish these ends, Harvard must decide not to act rashly but to consider the stated intent...
There are rumors that many of the top elevator executives are Russian defectors. They say it's just a coincidence. Ha! Do they think we can be duped so easily? Americans must defend themselves. Join me in returning to the good old days of marble staircases and horizontal sky-scrapers. We must find alternate technologies before it is too late--please donate money to the Harvard Scientist Research Committee where they are currently developing a complicated see-saw apparatus on which yuppies can stand and bound pleasantly to their jobs when that fat lady is pushed out onto the other...
Those who tend Washington decade after decade have many faults, but there are splendid moments when the best rise to defend this ungainly democracy. When Lyndon Johnson passed the acceptable threshold of bloodshed in Viet Nam, the political establishment weighed in. Richard Nixon violated the law andthe threshold of decency in Watergate, and the city exposed and expelled him. Reagan crossed a threshold of mismanagement, and is being called to account...